160 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-17 and snare through bars 18-32, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-22, 24-26 and 29-31, and 19 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 23, 32, 43, 44, 51, 53 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 49 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 23, 32, 43, 44, 51, 53 and 23 more.